Pixellated 3: The Attempt

Chapter 4 - You

Anna. You sly motherfucker. You really thought rope would keep me, which was your downfall, but tomorrow, if you're not out of the city, I'm coming after you. You will die. You don't belong here and never have. Just fucking leave our lives and we'll all be happy.

...I...

Kate, stop being a dick.

No, she's right. I need to leave.

Look at what you've done, Kate. Now the only girlfriend I'm gonna get in this world is leaving the city because of you.

As if that would've been a happy marriage.

We could've tried. We could've made it work.

It wouldn't have worked no matter what. You would live in fear because she keeps threatening to hurt you, and she would be terrified of seeing a therapist.

That's your twisted fantasy, not my reality.

I know how that would've turned out, Peter. It won't be good.

You know what? Maybe it'll do her good to get away from the dick you are.

So I'm the asshole?

She has anorexia, Kate. I think that was her way of reaching out.

By kidnapping and threatening to murder me? As if that was a smart idea.

Maybe that's all she knows, Kate.

And how would that be the case?

She might've had an abusive father.

Still don't see where the kidnapping part comes in.

Look, what matters is that you're a fucking asshole to someone who was probably lonely as fuck until they met me.

Again, how am I the asshole if I'm trying to save your ass?

You've done this with every girl that comes within five feet of me. It's not the fact that she's insane that's pushing you to do this.

What are you implying?

You don't want to be replaced as a best friend.

Who would?

You once punched a girl because she returned my pen. You've got some pretty strong feelings about replacement.

That girl was trying to flirt with you.

It was just a fucking pen!

You wanna rephrase that?

No, because how you interpreted it is not how I meant it. And anyway, another time, you threatened to stab someone after beating them so much they could barely walk, simply for asking me about homework. It was math homework, for fuck's sake! There is nothing romantic about math!